QUOTES NOTES

“The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.
With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume
the leadership”
“Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are
the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more
than ribbons?"

“Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”
“the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work;
they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that
they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who
would come after them, and not for a pack of idle thieving human
beings”

“the cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and
milked them in their sleep.”

“…an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any
two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave
him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate
intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of
character and tremendous power
of work”

“‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’”

“ ‘Napoleon is always right”

“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —
which he had adopted as his personal motto.”
“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life
and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better
or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said,
the unalterable law of life.”

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey”
“Four legs good, two legs bad”
“Four legs good, two legs better”
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself
from it would have his rations reduced by half”
“Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our
windmill? SNOWBALL!”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig,
and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which
was which.”
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not
give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he
cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will
prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right
arguments.”
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals
are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for
yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions,
comrades, and then where should we be?”
“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a
single word-- Man”
“And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to
resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his
vices.”
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was
which.”
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”
“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone
on--that is, badly.”
“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing
this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike
milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these
things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by
Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-
being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and
organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching
over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those
apples.”
“The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.”
“they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when
fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch
your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”
“Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?”
“As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could
have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not
what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work
for the overthrow of the human race”
“...out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all
walking on their hind legs...out came Napoleon himself, majestically
upright…He carried a whip in his trotter”

“…in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the
habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never
criticising, no matter what happened-they might have uttered some
word of protest. But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the
sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of-

"Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four
legs good, two legs better!"

It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep
had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the
pigs had marched back into the farmhouse”
“Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without
making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the
pigs and the dogs.”